Patrick Cavanagh

Applied neuroscience

In his guest editorial, Patrick Cavanagh provides an overview of our Applied Neuroscience special issue.

Target Displacements during Eye Blinks Trigger Automatic Recalibration of Gaze Direction - S0960-9822(16)31509-3

SPLTRAK Abstract Submission

We recently found that direct stimulation of visual cortex using TMS could result in phosphenes that extended outside the visual field (Wu et al, VSS 2006). Brightness was perceived to emanate from positions inside the mouth, beneath the head, or even behind the ear. Though previous studies using retinal stimulation had failed to produce similar results (Hayhoe & Williams 1984, Cavanagh & Barto...

Orbiting Black/White Rays Produce an "Illusory" Gray Disk.

An orbiting ray pattern produces an unexpected gray disk. Here we demonstrate this visual effect and its possible insights into visual temporal integration.

Object Recognition: Visual Crowding from a Distance

Immediately before a large eye movement, a target object is crowded by clutter near the target's future location. This new finding, from a recent study, shows that the brain's remapping for the anticipated eye movement unavoidably combines features from the target's current and future retinal locations into one perceptual object.